Hacker News: nehal3m

New comment by nehal3m in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

nehal3m — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:31:50 +0000

Show me an interesting novel you wrote, then.

New comment by nehal3m in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

nehal3m — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:52:50 +0000

Seems cool, ordered one. I like my Kobo but the ability to shove it in a pocket seems sweet.

New comment by nehal3m in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

nehal3m — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:34:23 +0000

Depends on where they live. Groceries don’t have to be a weekly run to a far flung place to get a truck bed full of stuff. It can be a daily visit to a neighborhood supermarket on your way home. If zoning laws allow those can exist.

New comment by nehal3m in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

nehal3m — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:30:48 +0000

I think it’s a legal requirement, because it’s the same for Tesla.

New comment by nehal3m in "Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID"

nehal3m — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:52:52 +0000

Yeah, that’s why they install Linux

New comment by nehal3m in "Moby Dick Workout (2022)"

nehal3m — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:46:20 +0000

Find your nearest Discord Mod Meetup.

New comment by nehal3m in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

nehal3m — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:42:55 +0000

Maybe we need an economic system where it is. Shame should come packaged with legal personhood.

New comment by nehal3m in "Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van"

nehal3m — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:35:09 +0000

Beautiful project. Vim controls really found their way into my muscle memory through Tridactyl and Vimium, browser extensions that let you drive web pages and the browser itself with Vim keybinds.

New comment by nehal3m in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

nehal3m — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:02:39 +0000

Agreed. It’s a mess of confusing configuration spaghetti, my comment was not meant to imply quality (and that’s leaving aside asinine corporate policy). They’re pretty much the only game in town though sadly.

New comment by nehal3m in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

nehal3m — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:52:49 +0000

> The harsh truth is that most consumers pick Windows because PCs cost less than Macs. Businesses pick them for employee computers for the same reason.

As a Microsoft sysadmin with a stable of homelab machines of all types and brands (and favorites that are definitely not Microsoft), enterprise mostly buys Microsoft because of the built in endpoint and end user management stacks.

New comment by nehal3m in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

nehal3m — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:15:50 +0000

I very much depend on my pay check to sustain my life in the long run, although worker protections and a small (!) nest egg make it so I wouldn’t have to put up with this kind of abuse. I see employment as an agreement for a set number of hours of my expertise in exchange for a fee. End of transaction.

The real world is slightly less black and white of course, but that’s the gist of it.

New comment by nehal3m in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

nehal3m — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:25:13 +0000

I hope you replied something like 'No, meeting this project deadline is more important than YOUR child dying, to me this is a paycheck.'

That's what I would've been thinking in the shower 2 days after the conversation, anyway.

New comment by nehal3m in "Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine"

nehal3m — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:39:17 +0000

An installer extracts and moves a bunch of files from a blob to the filesystem, writes registry values (on Windows anyway), sets environment variables, sets up services, permissions and a bunch of other things, does it not?

A ROM is a binary blob that some executable accepts as input and interprets, the executable being the emulator, which simulates the target hardware well enough that the ROM's machine code runs as if it were on the original silicon.

New comment by nehal3m in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

nehal3m — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:40:33 +0000

I feel like the Source engine for Half-Life 2 had some industry shaking physics due to their Havok implementation, which released in the same year. Doom 3 had cool gritty horror looks, but HL2 blew it out of the water SOTA wise, in my opinion.

New comment by nehal3m in "John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software"

nehal3m — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:36:49 +0000

I disagree, even for successful projects retrospection toward mistakes is worth the pain to learn.

New comment by nehal3m in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

nehal3m — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:59:23 +0000

You could just put it in your calendar. 'Check if that hacky bugfix at ~/.dirtyhack.sh is still required with chmod -x ~/.dirtyhack.sh'

New comment by nehal3m in "Steam Machine"

nehal3m — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:36:04 +0000

Maybe weighted is the wrong term, it’s a threshold and that seems prudent.

New comment by nehal3m in "Steam Machine"

nehal3m — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:17:53 +0000

Well if you’re prepared to sell a kidney for a flux capacitor and a DeLorean, go for it.

New comment by nehal3m in "Steam Machine launches today"

nehal3m — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:07:04 +0000

I think account age and activity should be weighted into that equation.

New comment by nehal3m in "The Flat Curve Society"

nehal3m — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:09:34 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised, good point. But closed door deals in the trillions? Because we’re coming up on those numbers.